http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/ Engadget Comments for Insignia NS-BRDVD Blu-ray player: now below $200 at Best Buy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
While only time will tell, I can see BD making off nicely this holiday season, and continuing to increase it's market share in 09.]]>Oct 20th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
I'm just not sure I would trust a no-name brand at this stage in the game to be able to play all future discs. The likes of Sony and Samsung are having enough trouble ensuring compatibility across the board, what are the odds that Funai has hit the ball out of the park so early and how effective will their support be if they haven't?]]>Oct 20th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
I agree that I'd want to know what I was letting myself in for before buying a no-name. The Funai is the basis of models by Philips and Onkyo and seems like a good, cheap player just so long as you're going to plug it into an TV or a receiver with HDMI. But I would definitely be worried about support for the device if an issue did arise. The owners thread on AVSForum is positive about the player but a couple of non-showstopper glitches have been found. Therefore I would be more tempted at the moment to buy the BDP1500 since I believe Samsung would be more likely to release an update if one was required.]]>Oct 20th 2008 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
On the other hand look at Insignia's support page.

http://www.insignia-products.com/t-customer_support.aspx

There isn't even a location for firmware updates as of yet. That doesn't mean they couldn't add one, but in general their support site seems very limited. Also, the lack of an ethernet port or USB port means any updates to the firmware must first be burned to a disc. Not the most user friendly method.

I guess my point is that this player could be dangerous as far as blu-ray adoption goes. Just say it drops to $150 for black friday, gets bought en-mass, and then has a major compatibility issue with a high profile title (like maybe The Dark Knight which will likely includ a ton of advanced features.) Do you think Insignia's support is going to be ready to leap into action Christmas morning to resolve the issues of thousands of pissed off people who rightfully assumed that if they bought a blu-ray player and a blu-ray disc, they would be in the clear?

Everyone is so ready to push blu-ray on the masses that no one has really sat back and wondered if blu-ray itself is mature enough for mass adoption. I don't get the same level of confidence when looking at standalone players that I did looking at standalone DVD players in 1999. These beasts seem much more finicky and have a far less unified user experience.

Hell, again look at the BD-P1500. If you have it connected to ethernet and download the 2.0 update, you better have a flash drive attached to that USB port because discs like Ironman will just flat out refuse to start with no sort of error warning due to the lack of storage for BD-Live content. We are still very far from the average user just being able to plug in a player and watch a movie without and caveats. ]]>Oct 20th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com]]>Oct 20th 2008 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
Well, he did get a c-c-c-combo deal when he got it with an insignia tv, so I guess he didn't eff up too hard.

Scratch that, he got an Insignia Plasma tv and blu-ray player. he loses.]]>Oct 20th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
Yes, but what does the ethernet port do for you? Other than telling Nielsen ratings what you're watching on Blu-ray, what good is it?]]>Oct 22nd 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
You need a player like this on the market to satisfy the price shoppers and to keep the big boys from getting to ridiculous with pricing. There are so many people out there who just want a player that looks better than DVD and is cheap, this is the player for them. ]]>Oct 20th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 20th 2008 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/
Johnny.. Last week Amazon, BB and CC all had the Samsung 1500 with Matrix set free. I bought them at CC where it rang up $150 for player and $99 for movie and took movies back 2 days later and kept Samsung 1500 for $150.

Rumors are the 1500 will be $149 on BF anyway so this player is a bad deal...it needs to be marked down to $179 and BF around $129.]]>Oct 20th 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://beneficialtech.info/deals

BDP-S300 for $99.00!]]>Oct 21st 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Oct 21st 2008 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.maillinkplus.com/vegas_location.php]]>Oct 22nd 2008 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/the dark knight plays beautifully on it
and it also has BD LIVE so that is cool as well
i highly recommend this one]]>Dec 12th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/20/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player-now-below-200-at-best-buy/Dec 23rd 2008 4:01PM